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Questioning Lupo, Farsi’s lawyer, Michael Diamondstein, asked if he ever opened the trunk of Farsi’s car at the scene. Lupo said he did not. Diamondstein then confronted Lupo with a surveillance tape showing him and a police sergeant opening the trunk of the Buick and looking inside for about 20 seconds before closing it.

Diamondstein showed the judge statistics indicating that from Jan. 1, 2008, to Sept. 30, 2014, there were 63 fatal crashes on the Boulevard. Nine fatalities occurred within about a half-mile from where Banks and her kids died, he said.

A 32-year-old man who was reportedly racing another driver on Roosevelt Boulevard two years ago when the other driver allegedly hit and killed a mother and three of her kids who were crossing the Boulevard pleaded guilty in court Monday.

Six members of an elite Philadelphia narcotics squad were acquitted Thursday of federal corruption charges – a verdict the men described as “vindication” after nearly a decade of federal scrutiny surrounding their conduct.

After a monthlong trial, a federal jury has found six former Philadelphia narcotics squad officers not guilty of more than 20 charges, rejecting claims that the officers stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from drug dealers.

The federal corruption case against six members of an elite Philadelphia police narcotics squad will head to a jury Thursday, after a second day of closing arguments in which the defense team lauded its clients as heroes and likened the officers’ accusers to “a freak show to end all.”

Between misidentifying officers and changing the amount of money he said was stolen from him, Michael Procopio did not have a good Friday on the witness stand.

Procopio, 40 and hearing-impaired, testified with the aid of a sign-language interpreter in the second day of the corruption trial of six members of the Philadelphia police narcotics unit, telling of run-ins he had with the squad.

“When we get the evidence and discovery from the district attorney’s office we will review it and we will take the appropriate next step. I can tell you that there is a significant portion of this case that hasn’t been released yet and when that becomes available we will be happy to discuss it with you,” said Michael Diamondstein, attorney for Vanessa Brown.